Presenting Japanese Buddhism to the West : Orientalism, Occidentalism, and the Columbian exposition / by Judith Snodgrass.

Author
Snodgrass, Judith [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2003]
  • ©2003
Description
351 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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    Japanese Buddhism was introduced to the West during the World's Parliament of Religions, in the 1893 Columbian Exposition. In describing and analysing this event, this text challenges the view of Orientalism as a one-way process by which Asian cultures are understood through Western ideas.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-343) and index.
    Contents
    • Japan faces the West
    • Manifest destiny: Christianity and American imperialism
    • The rules of the parliament: securing the truth
    • Alterity: Buddhism as the "other" of Christianity
    • Buddhism and modernity in Meiji Japan
    • Buddhist revival and Japanese nationalism
    • Deploying western authority I: Henry Steel Olcott in Japan
    • Buddhism and treaty revision: the Chicago project
    • Defining Eastern Buddhism
    • Paul Carus: Buddhism and Monist mission
    • Deploying western authority II: Carus in translation
    • From Eastern Buddhism to Zen: a postscript.
    ISBN
    • 0807827851 ((alk. paper))
    • 9780807827857 ((alk. paper))
    • 0807854581 ((paper ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780807854587 ((paper ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2002152516
    OCLC
    50920700
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